Downton Abbey girls smoke and go vamp for Love magazine

Michelle displays very un-Mary like behaviour in a revealing corset (Picture: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott)

Michelle looked worlds away from her famous television character Lady Mary, as she struck a pose in a corset that showed off her curves in one of the set of photos taken by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

Findlay Brown, who plays the youngest Grantham sister Sybil, joined her onscreen sisters in the photoshoot in an elegant white gown with a red veil around her head, flowers in her untamed hairdo and bright red make up smudged across her cheeks, chest and hands.

Jess almost resembled a rather gothic bride as she stared fiercely into the camera – rather reflective of her TV character’s strong personality.This isn’t the first time the Grantham girls have shed their restrictive period clothes for something more glam, with Michelle, Laura and Jessica going disco with the other women of Downton Abbey in a past issue of Marie Claire – much to the horror of the show’s fans. One fan tweeted: ‘not feeling downton girls dodgy disco photoshoot (sic)’, while another said: ‘Nooo! can’t we just let some things be??? those girls look MUCH nicer in their formal frocks’.